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OMG! Bandcamp is the new muxtape

By You on Monday February 8th 2010 02:18 | Category: web

Bandcamp is a new music platform for bands to show off their creations, nothing new you might say. However Bandcamp differs itself by offering music in high quality audio instead of the pitty excuse for sound most band sites are offering.

We at Softsaurus love music, in a way it guides us through life... well you can make up all kinds of bullshit on music but the fact is that it should just sound right. With the current costs of drive space compression is almost rendered useless, if you run out of space just buy some more.. why listen to medioker MP3 quality if you can listen to FLAC or OGG files instead?

However many online music platforms still offer these highly compressed audio files and some even dare ask money in return. Music should be sold at CD quality, after all who would buy a 128KB/s Compact Disk, strangely enough many sites get away with it. Why do sites still compress.. bandwith you say? it's 2010 everyone has broadband nowadays.

That's just where Bandcamp comes in, Bandcamp differs itself by offering music in high quality audio instead of the pitty excuse for sound (yeah.. i'm looking at you MySpace) most band sites are offering. Bandcamp also offers a way for artists to get some revenue of their work by giving them the choice to either let their listeners pay, listen for free or simply limit the quality of the free download to a low-fi file and charge for the high-def stuff. This along with artist being able to track detailed statistics makes Bandcamp the new hot location for start-up as well as professional artists.

Go check it out!